Cruising night byways for an adrenaline repair, Scot Sothern first patronized of curbside prostitution browsing the prurient whims of a tender guy. He dove to the murky depths of sexual obsession and resurfaced 5 years later, shell-shocked and with out excuse. whereas there, trusty Nikon in hand, Scot, a second-generation photographer, made full-frontal X-rated exposures, black and white, choked with pathos and an uncanny realism. the images captured the plight of the disenfranchised in the US, these forgotten and drug-addicted. Now he's able to inform the tale in the back of the pictures, the confessions of a befuddled baby-boomer protecting a slippery connection to propriety whereas side-tripping into noirish infatuations with these low in lifestyles.

Curb Service recounts Sothern’s earlier as a child within the Nineteen Sixties who visited two-dollar whorehouses and as an grownup within the Eighties continues to be at it. A photographer who both can’t get a holiday or blows it whilst one comes his approach, Scot desires to carry onto jobs, better halves, and relationships; he attempts to be a very good father to the son he loves. but he maintains identifying up road prostitutes, photographing them, having intercourse with them, residing moments in their lives and observing them fade away in a tradition that deems them legal and expendable.

It was once just a couple of years in the past that Scot’s images began to obtain observe – through influential Drkrm Gallery in l. a. – which resulted in the ebook of Lowlife, a photograph e-book, by way of Stanley Barker within the united kingdom and shortly through powerhouse in Brooklyn. His paintings has in view that been exhibited world-wide together with indicates in London, l. a., and Ottawa.